Kazakhstan: three defenders fined for demanding registration of opposition party
Event- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Initial Date
- Aug 19, 2024
- Event Description
A court in Kazakhstan has fined three activists over their participation in a rally in late May demanding the official registration of the opposition Algha, Qazaqstan (Forward, Kazakhstan) party. Aizhan Zholdasova and Ermek Qonyshbai were ordered on August 19 to pay 110,740 tenges ($230) each, while Azia Abieva was fined 77, 532 tenges ($161). All three pleaded not guilty before the court in the southern city of Shymkent, saying they have a right to express their political demands. In November, a court in Astana sentenced the chairman of Algha, Qazaqstan, Marat Zhylanbaev, to seven years in prison on extremism charges, which he also rejects as politically motivated.
- Impact of Event
- 3
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Woman
- Violation
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to Protest
- HRD
- Pro-democracy defender
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Judiciary
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 42.31801744344656
Longitude: 69.58586671734315
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 19 August 2024, Aizhan Zholdasova, Azia Abieva and Ermek Qonyshbai, pro-democracy defenders, were fined for participating in a rally demanding the official registration of an opposition party by a Court in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.